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Posted: May 27, 2008

Experts Debate Cloned Food

Beef Cattle: Photo Keith Weller, USDA In January, the Food and Drug Administration decided that meat and milk from cloned animals is safe to eat. Two experts on different sides of the issue -- a veterinarian whose company produces cloned animals and an advocate for clone-free food -- answered your questions.
QUESTIONS
Why not label meat from cloned animals?
What are the repercussions of a genetically non-diverse food supply?
Will cloning result in worse treatment for animals?
Is it legal to sell meat from the progeny of cloned animals?
What about the cost? Will cattle farmers make money?
Why mess with Mother Nature?
Will public biases inhibit cloning technology?

Don Coover owns SEK Genetics, a reproductive cattle services company in Galesburg, Kansas that sells semen from cloned high-value breeding bulls. He is a licensed veterinarian.

Jaydee Hanson is a policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group that opposes the sale of cloned food. He also works for the center's sister agency, the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) where he directs their work on human genetics. Prior to that, he served as The United Methodist Church's staff director of genetics and bioethics issues.

Transcript: FDA's Approval of Cloned Beef for Human Consumption Ignites Debate


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